Ragnar Kj�rstad wrote:
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:34:06PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
If those are your choices, then I would rank them:
NetApp F870, Linux with ReiserFS and Samba, Win2K
John Terpstra has done some testing with a modified cifs_bm which confirms
that Linux with EXT2/3 or ReiserFS outperforms Win2K on the same hardware.
However, my testing of the NetApp suggests it will outperform the other
two choices.
What kind of benchmarks, and what were the results?
If you choose to use Samba, you will want to make sure that the sendfile
stuff is implemented. Unfortunately, the directory indexing in Reiser does
not help that much a lot of the time because Samba is forced to do
directory scans because it has to implement case-independent
lookups/searches.
Isn't that an configuration-option?
As a sidenote, I think it wouldn't be too hard to make reiserfs
optionally case-insensitive, but still able to use indexes. Perhaps it
would even be possible to have two virtual directories pr traditional
directory? one that has a regular index and one that has a
case-insensitive index. Of course this is not relevant for the
right-here right-now choice of fileservers, but....
There is quite a lot that could be done to optimize for Samba, but
nobody is sponsoring it unfortunately. Seems like some money could be
made by a clever appliance vendor....
